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The Fiend attacks you again, and you jump back away from it to avoid the attack. You begin to gather the raw magical energies into your hands, and they start to glow warmly as you do so. The Fiend frowns when it sees this and redoubles its efforts to attack you, breaking your concentration every time you're almost about to unleash it. Frowning, you decide to change your plan slightly, reaching out with your hands and unleashing the energy that you've collected so far, catching the Fiend's arms and legs in magical chains. It howls angrily and tries to break free of the chains, but they hold for now, giving you time to start gathering your energies again.

It takes you a bit longer than previously to gather the necessary amount of power, but once it's done, you quickly unleash it, creating a giant Magikiras unit that matches the Fiend in height. And just in time, too, for the Fiend wrenches its limbs from the chains and starts to approach you. Your giant construct steps forward and grabs the Fiend before it can come close to you. As the two grapple about the train, they come close to knocking the artifact off, but you manage to get the construct to push it away from the artifact by exerting your will over it, and inch by inch, the fight moves away towards safety.

Relative safety, at least, as the fight comes closer to you instead. You dart away from them and jump into the car that's trailing behind the artifact's car, hiding there while the two giants fight it out on the train. After a while, it looks as if your construct is getting the upper hand, and you send a little more energy into it to give the extra strength needed to overwhelm the Fiend. It pins the Fiend to the ground and starts to punch it several times, causing the latter to flail about wildly.

In its wild flailing, the Fiend strikes something, and you feel a slight jerk as the train suddenly pulls away from you, and you glance out of the car, staring in horror at the ruined coupling that the Fiend just smashed. You try to get the construct to grab for your car, but when it turns its back on the Fiend, the latter rallies itself, pinning its opponent to the ground and ripping off its limbs and plating in a frenzy as you fall further and further behind.

Oh…this is not good.

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